Alexopoulos and Cohen, "The Media is the Measure: Technical change and employment, 1909-49"
REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
REPLICATION FILES

The replication files consist of 3 data files, a pdf with a description of data sources and 4 Rats files:
1) Data.xlsx: An excel file with the data used in the paper. It contains data with headers.
2) RESTATdata1909_49final.txt is the data file used with the restat_yearly_Template_uplad.RPF to generate the annual VAR results
3) RESTATmonthlydata1920_49finalb.txt is the data file used with the restat_monthly_template_upload.RPF to generate the monthly VAR results
4) restat_yearly_template_upload.RPF is a template program to replicate the annual VAR results (figures, regressions and variance decompositions)
5) restat_monthly_template_upload.RPF is a template program to replicate the monthly VAR results (figures, regressions and variance decompositions))
6) MCGraphIRF.src is the EStima file that Organizes graphs of IRF's with confidence bands.
7) mcfevdtable.src is the Rats file that Organizes tables of FEVD's with confidence bands.
8) TheDatadeescriptionsRESTAT_AlexopoulosCohen.pdf documents the sources of the data.

Estima's WinRats Pro version 8.3 was used to estimate the VARS.

Please email malex@chass.utoronto.ca for further details.
